Poppies Quotes

In Flanders fields the poppies blow,

— John McCrae

And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

— Bayard Taylor

Carrying a poppy he passes through the quarrel.

— Kobayashi Issa

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

— Jonathan Swift

Or, bide thou where the poppy blows With windflowers fail and fair.

— William C. Bryant

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow: In Flanders fields.

— John McCrae

The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below

— John McCrae

But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

— John Bunyan

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

— John Keats

By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.

— Kat Duff

What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

— Johann Georg Hamann

“Across the river, fields of poppies stretched along the bank, the delicate scarlet heads dancing in the breeze, carefree and flourishing.”

— Bella Forrest

There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.

— Noel Gallagher

Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was…

— Megan Whalen Turner

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

— Robert Burns

And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?

— William Alexander Percy

I'm so bad at lyrics. I'm always trying to get better. Sometimes, the song can restrict your lyrics - if you're trying…

— Chaz Bundick

She [Pansy] pushed in next to Poppy so that she could see him around the guard's elbow. She was as tall as…

— Jessica Day George

It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing…

— Bruce Sterling

In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want…

— Mark Burnett

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down…

— Livy

Hi." "Hi." I shrug, as though to say "Whatever." In my peripheral vision I can see Magnus exhale. He looks a teeny…

— Sophie Kinsella

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms,…

— John Donne

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I humbly thank the gods benign, For all the blessings that are mine... The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads…

— Robert Loveman

An album for me as a teenager in the '70s was a fully formed concept. It was a body of work from…

— Christopher Bollen

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,…

— John Keats

[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is…

— Jandy Nelson

But Harry . . . even if we had met and married three years ago, you’d still say it wasn’t enough time.”…

— Lisa Kleypas

In Flanders fields the poppies blow, Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky, The larks,…

— John McCrae

“People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems…

— Roman Payne

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for…

— Anne Lamott

“Final Disposition Others divided closets full of mother's things. From the earth, I took her poppies. I wanted those fandango folds of…

— Jane Glazer

“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'…

— Christopher Hitchens

Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.

— Michaela DePrince

She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.

— Virginia Woolf

The poppies hung Dew-dabbled on their stalks.

— John Keats

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

— David Swing

“Life has always poppies in her hands.”

— Oscar Wilde

Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay